UK Housing Secretary Steve Reed said there was no assessment that Iran could attack London. Speaking on a BBC program, the minister said Iran was not an imminent threat, but he should have answered this question: ‘If there is no threat from Iran to the UK, why did you start allowing the US to use your bases?’
Prime Minister Starmer could have ignored or managed Trump’s threats, but he failed. Whether he anticipated Trump’s imposition of sanctions against the UK is unknown, but if he had managed to remain neutral as he did at the beginning of the conflict, Minister Reed wouldn’t be facing these questions today.
Labour Party members should now ask: Why did Starmer fail to protect ‘national interests’ and surrender to Trump? What did the country gain from this? The country gained nothing, but it will lose a great deal. Energy prices will rise, there will be a significant decrease in the number of tourists coming to the country. There will be a large decrease in the number of people coming from the increasingly turbulent Middle East and Arab countries. Investments from Arab countries will decrease significantly.
Starmer understood this: We are allies of the USA, but not its slaves. We are not obligated to support everything the USA says. Our own interests are the priority, not those of the USA. We support relations with the USA if it serves our interests; we cannot support them if it doesn’t. Like the American people, we gained nothing from the wars in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Afghanistan. Worse, Europe has been invaded by immigrants, and today complaints about immigrants in Europe are at an all-time high. Europe and the UK must now understand that the interests of the USA are not our interests.